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Imagining the Lectionary: Facing the danger of freeing the self (Lent 1C)
Reflection accompanying images: “Dangerous site” and
“Piece of berlin wall change your life outside imperial war museum”
Another Lent begins, and once more we have the precious opportunity mindfully to let God lead us to that place within where God wants us to be strengthened, set free and made whole. Once again, with Easter in prospect, we are invited to grapple with the character making demands of such soul work confident that we are enfolded in God's love as we do so. Or we could opt instead for the far safer quasi-orthodox Lenten observance of deciding
to give up something we are ready and prepared to abstain from during Lent in order to prepare ourselves for Holy Week.
So which of these two ways of approaching Lent is closer to the experience of Jesus in the wilderness, and why is the former so forbidding, when Jesus has gone there before us toshow us that we have nothing to fear?
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